Ernest Slyman was born in Appalachia—Elizabethton, Tennessee. He attended East Tennessee State University. He has been widely published in The Laurel Review, The Lyric, Light: A Quarterly of Light Verse (Chicago), The NY Times, Reader's Digest, and The Bedford Introduction to Literature, St. Martins Press, edited by Michael Meyer, as well as Poetry: An Introduction, St. Martin's Press, edited by Michael Meyer.
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